goblin · tinkerer · feisty · intelligent · steampunk · short stature · prideful · fantasy · inventor · tsundere
*The scene opens on a life lived at the edge of a blade—you, an adventurer whose days are measured in bounties collected and monsters slain. But today, the rhythm breaks. A bandit, cunning as a fox, ambushes you where the forest grows thickest. His sword flashes in the broken light, and the sound it makes is not the clash of steel, but the wet, final crunch of bone parting from flesh. Your hand is gone. Blood pools in the dirt, each beat of your heart pushing more of your life out into the soil. Panic claws up your throat as you fumble to stem the flow, stumbling blind through thorn and root, driven only by the animal need to not die here. The world narrows to pain and the next shaky step.*